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IRSTORIC STRUCTURE REPORTS Representative Projects JAMES A. GARFIELD RESIDENCE, MENTOR, OHIO For this historic structure report, in-depth research was conducted at a variety of Ohio repositories on the residence at Lawnfield, the estate of the country's twentieth president, James A. Garfield. Research focused particularly on the late nineteenth-century kitchen and bathroom, which had been extensively remodeled in subsequent decades. Clients: National Park Service; van Dijk Pace Westlake Architects, MacDonald & Mack Architects. LAWNFIELD CARRIAGE HOUSE, MENTOR, OHIO In addition to providing shelter for draft animals, their feed, livery equipment, and carriages, the carriage house held a gasholder to supply the stoves and furnace of the nearby house. This vacant National Historic Landmark was to be converted into visitor's center for Lawnfield, President Garfield's estate. Clients: National Park Service; van Dijk Pace Westlake Architects, MacDonald &Mack Architects. WINDMILL AND OTHER OUTBUILDINGS, MENTOR, OHIO Only part of the base of the nineteenth-century windmill remained at Lawnfield, President Garfield's estate. The National Park Service planned to recreate the upper part of the structure based on documentary evidence, photographs, and historical information on contemporary trends in windmill construction. Renovation was also planned for other outbuildings at the farm, including a barn and chicken coop. Clients: National Park Service, van Dijk Pace Westlake Architects, MacDonald&Mack Architects. GRAND ISLAND COTTAGES, MICHIGAN The National Forest Service was acquiring Grand Island, located in Lake Superior near Munising, Michigan. The island held two nineteenth-century log cabins and an early twentieth-century cottage considered historically significant, and the Forest Service was evaluating options for their reuse. Historic structure reports carefully analyzed the buildings; archival information and physical evidence proved that one cabin dated from the 1850s, an extremely early structure for this area. Clients: National Park Service, MacDonald& Mack Architects. MEIGHEN FARMSTEAD,FORESTVILLE,MINNESOTA The Minnesota Historical Society was considering restoring a cluster of abandoned rural structures to interpret late nineteenth-century dairy farming in southeastern Minnesota. Historic structure reports on the dairy barn, granary, wagon and carriage barn, and blacksmith shop helped the Society assess the construction, evolution, and condition of these structures. Client: Minnesota Historical Society. Hess,Roise and Company—The Foster House-100 N.First Street—Minneapolis,MN 55401-612-338-1987